iPod Touch 4th gen Home Button

Well I've had my iPod Touch 4th generation for one year as of yesterday. I've taken very good care of my iPod, and have no scratches or cracks whatsoever. I say this because, most people I know, have boughton either an iPhone or iPod and have cracked it within 6 months of owning it.

Anyways, recently I've had some troubles with the home button not working properly. Problems such as, double clicking the home to pull up the multitask feature, when instead the iPod thinks I'm only clicking the home button once. Another example is when I want to close an app in the background, while at the same time I'm in another app, so, when I try and pull up the multitask bar, the iPod will think I clicked the home button once and close out of the app I'm working in.

Calibrate your home button..
Go to a stock app like weather
Hold power button like you shutting it down
Wait for slide to power off appears
Now that it appeared release the power button and hold the home button until the app closes

Your home button may or may not work better. My home button broke my my 4 last August. Good thing I had apple care.

Calibrate your home button..
Go to a stock app like weather
Hold power button like you shutting it down
Wait for slide to power off appears
Now that it appeared release the power button and hold the home button until the app closes

Your home button may or may not work better. My home button broke my my 4 last August. Good thing I had apple care.

I have the same problem too. I've tried calibrating it and it works for 10 minutes then its unresponsive again. I have two iPT4 and one is running iOS 5.1.1 and the other is running the latest ver. of iOS 6, so I was thinking it was a bug rather than a hardware problem? I haven't tried putting alcohol, but I'll try that when I get home.

I was gifted my iPod touch 4G for Christmas 2011. After about 7 months, It began having the same Intermittant Home button failure many others report. Repeated recalibrations have yielded mixed results. Not wishing to continue being frustrated by the Home button on my constant companion, I made an appointment for Genius Bar help at the nearest Apple retail store (unfortunately 1.5 hours from home) on Saturday, 3/16. I'll let y'all know what transpires and how much I had to pay, if anything, for the repair. I would be interested to hear anyone else's experience with Apple Retail and its Genius Bar.

Well, the news about the Genius Bar was as expected. The iPod was no longer in warranty, and there was no service available for this problem, so I bit the bullet and paid the $98 to replace it. I am using the Accessibility function to generally replace my Home Button so I don't tax it too much and have a repeat of the original problem. For anyone who doesn't know, here is the path to that function: Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> AssistiveTouch. I've enabled this on my daughter's iPod as well, because she doesn't want to have to pay to replace hers, however, I'm sure we'll catch it before the warrantee runs out this time. She likes it anyway, so that was easy! I'm getting so I like the many functions of the AssistiveTouch, especially the ScreenShot with one finger!

My IPT4 has this problem, the Home button is inconsistent. Finally decided to upgrade to IPT5 because it's slow as heck, only had 8 GB, the camera was lacking, and the battery didn't even last 4 hours. I get 2 days out of my 5 now with the same usage.

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I have a question is for Thetonix -- How did you get that pretty, active, colorful graphic to appear by your username?? That is just the most interesting thing! I don't know what I'd like to put by my handle, but I'd like to try my hand at it. I'll bet there are others who would like to add some color to their posts -- perhaps Thetinix would like to be the one to instruct us?

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Once you post a certain amount of posts (I think 500, I forget) it will be available to change your avatar in your profile settings. Hope that clears that up.

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